Probably not, but I'm sure they'll keep shouting that out, to remind people XBox is better than Wii or Playstation. Maybe not as aggressively with the games anymore, but they certainly won't hesitate telling people all the time that XBox is better because it has Kinect.

It apparently comes with a similar thing, but as far as I understood it, it's nowhere near Kinect functionality, in the sense of controller-free controls. I expect it to be closer to what the Wii's sensor bar does.

edit: or simply the current EyeToy, actually. Something like EyeToy with better depth perception or so. But of course, it could be much more. We'll see.

It's the Playstation Eye now, but yeah. Apparently, there are two cameras in it now, and four (?) microphones, so it looks like a total Kinect rip-off.

Not that Kinect itself was so revolutionary itself, seeing as all the stuff was calculated in software anyway.

In any case, it looks like Sony will be sticking to its Move lunacy for the next gen as well, and a camera is always needed for that.

Which is not cool, because now I only put up the camera in the middle of the room when I want to play something with the move, whereas once I get the PS4 I'll have to come up with something permanent for it.

That's my main concern about the next gen actually. My current set up is I use my 360 at my computer desk, using my PC monitor's HDMI input. So Kinect/PS Eye stuff is going to be useless unless I scoot waaaaaaaaay back.

I'm just very bored of constant cynical dismissal of everything in gaming. These people are sadly, normally proven correct: but they don't know they will be. They just act like the clever cynic and get proven right, in some roundabout way, and then act as if they were a fucking prophet.

2. Ignoring all the Respawn game speculation, the sources credited sound ridiculous. How exactly would multiple sources be in a position to access reliable information about how far along both Sony and Microsoft are with launch software? What kind of job position could possibly have access to that information? Maybe one one side, perhaps, but both?

3. Even if were true, so what? It may be that I just didn't play them, but does anybody care about Perfect Dark Zero or Hexic HD these days? Every Party? Kameo? Project Gotham Racing 3, I'll concede, just because I don't hear about it much doesn't mean it has been forgotten. No one ever has their shit together for launches these days. Unless something drastic happens, the Nextbox will have a good software library eventually, even ignoring first party agmes. It's just drama about an imagined console war that media sites like to drum up for hits.

4. Mr. Bear if you don't want to be unnecessarily criticized, don't post an article that is mainly about one thing and then give the second thing, which compared to space and attention of the first thing, is barely an afterthought, the same attention. To say it comes as disingenuous is polite.